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I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
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It's not even rejection, it's dismissal.
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I feel like myself - the myself I used to be.
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On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me.
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Life and light will not let me be.
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When I write, I imagine places more than people.
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Now, I think he might be dead.
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dig my fingernails into my palms.
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Parents don't care about anything but their children. They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts.
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I need to find something that I must do, something undeniable.
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Beware a calm surface - you never know what lies beneath.
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I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
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Some battles aren't worth fighting
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The memory doesn't fit with the reality, because I don't remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear.
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She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.
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I can't do this, I can't just be a wife.
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the job itself is utterly beneath me, but then I seem to have become beneath me over the past year or two. I need to reset the scale.
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it's possible to miss what you've never had, to mourn for it.
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It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand.
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I felt dizzy, as though I were having an out-of-body experience, as though I were looking out at myself
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Then I wait. Times and dates, mostly. Not dates. Days. Monday
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I'm not here for you, I couldn't be less interested
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house feels like it's shaking, too, the
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I'm playing at real life instead of actually living it.
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It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting.
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There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.
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I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
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Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.
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This is what marriage is - safe, warm, comfortable. Tom
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Tom's whole life was constructed on lies - falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.
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I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed
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I've been the fool. If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.
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Once I've made my mind up, I'm a force to be reckoned with.
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I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my
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Surely he would call me, wouldn't she? She would know how panicked...how desperate I would be. She's not vindictive like that, is she?
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So who do I want to be tomorrow?
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I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who have witnessed it.
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Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work) — Paula Hawkins
...that's the point, you can say anything to strangers. But that isn't completely true. You can't just say 'anything'.
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It's nice being out early, before the school run, before the commute gets going; the streets are empty and clean, the day full of possibility
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Now look what you made me do.
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They're what I lost, they're everything I want to be.
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He closed his eyes so that he didn't have to watch me choke.
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It isn't normal to invade someone's privacy to that degree. It's what is often seen as a form of emotional abuse.
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Nobody warned me it would break us. But it did. Or rather, it broke me, and then I broke us. The
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Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras.
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I didn't want to draw attention to her resting place, but I couldn't leave her without remembrance.
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I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
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Tom said about Scott and Megan came from Anna, and no one knows better than I do that she can't be trusted.
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That's what he always used to say to me. Don't expect me to be sane, Anna. Not with you.
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There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end.
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At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they've been together years. They respect each other, they don't put each other down.
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green and cold and waiting for fingers of sunshine to creep up from the tracks and make them all come alive.
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I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas.
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...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable.
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It's not a photo I've seen before.
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The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.
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One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
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People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.
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I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.
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The last thing I need is rest.
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I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
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Blood starts to ooze from the wound. The girls on the other side of the carriage are watching me, their faces blank.
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He loves me so much, it makes me ache. I don't know how he does it. I would drive me mad.
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It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers.
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I'd never realized, not until the last year or two of my life, how shaming it is to be pitied.
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And I've just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don't, if I keep numbing it, it'll never really go away.
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No matter how much I love him, it won't be enough.
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know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish.
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I didn't even get upset. I was just astounded. And when I brought it up with Tom - calmly, matter-of-factly - he was just as baffled as I was.
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I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
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He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to
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He loves me so much it makes me ache.
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Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.
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He's a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless.
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The police think I'm a rubbernecker. They think I'm a stalker, a nut-case, mentally unstable.
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He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me.
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she finds it funny or whether she's trying to appease him.
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When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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Sometimes, I don't want to go anywhere, I think I'll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again.
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There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me.
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Maidstone," he says, "in Kent. But I moved
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Every time I hear footsteps on the steps, my heart rate goes up. Every time I hear the clacking of high heels, I am seized with trepidation.
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